Leliel
2010-05-26, 11:09 AM
Let me get this out of the way: I, love, absolutely love the NWoD, to the point where I'm thinking of running a crossover with it.
As one might expect from that, I like horror. Not inherently horrific games mind you-I always thought of the NWoD being a modern heroic fantasy game with very scary undertones-but ones where tension is high and a well of Nightmare Fuel.
Of course, this is Exalted. The game where the basic character splat is a demigod.
Which isn't to say it can't be done, just a little hard.
Personally, I think a good horror inspiration is Alan Wake-sure, it sacrifices scare value for tension, but that was a pretty good decision on the developer's part. So is that horror manga Gyo-sure, you might be able to cream the soulsteel cyborg fish, but the real problem isn't the undead amphibious army, it's the disease they carry with them-they don't have to get near you at all for you to fall to the miasma, and even if you survive, your friends probably won't.
And no, "horror" does not mean "survival horror". F.E.A.R, for example, is a very scary game, but you are a badass, and Alma doesn't really pose that much danger to you.
So, how would you, the forum-goers, make Exalted into a system and setting for running horror games?
As one might expect from that, I like horror. Not inherently horrific games mind you-I always thought of the NWoD being a modern heroic fantasy game with very scary undertones-but ones where tension is high and a well of Nightmare Fuel.
Of course, this is Exalted. The game where the basic character splat is a demigod.
Which isn't to say it can't be done, just a little hard.
Personally, I think a good horror inspiration is Alan Wake-sure, it sacrifices scare value for tension, but that was a pretty good decision on the developer's part. So is that horror manga Gyo-sure, you might be able to cream the soulsteel cyborg fish, but the real problem isn't the undead amphibious army, it's the disease they carry with them-they don't have to get near you at all for you to fall to the miasma, and even if you survive, your friends probably won't.
And no, "horror" does not mean "survival horror". F.E.A.R, for example, is a very scary game, but you are a badass, and Alma doesn't really pose that much danger to you.
So, how would you, the forum-goers, make Exalted into a system and setting for running horror games?